Improvement in rocking-chairs



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Improvement inv vRocking-Chairs.

Patented Sep. 10, 1872.

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@messa UNITED 'STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OAEL EIBEE, OE BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN ROCKING-CHAIRS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 131,155, datedSeptember 10, 1872.

To all to whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CARL EIBEE, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings andState of New York, have invented an Improvement in Rocking-Chairs, andthe following is declared to be a correct description of the same.

This rocking-chair is made with a wroughtmetal frame that is braced soas to obtain great strength wit-h very little weight of material, andthe rockers are made of three plates riveted together, the centralplates being interrupted at the places where the legs and braces enterthe rockers; thereby great strength and durability are obtained. Thecushion or web forming the seat and back is suspended by a cross bar,and provided with stra-ps and buckles so as to be adjustable for varyingthe position of the part-s in supporting the person.

In the drawin g, Figure 1 is a vertical section of the chair; and Fig. 2is a rear view, with one of the rockers in section.

The frame of the chair-body is made of the side pieces a, curved toshape, and connected at the upper end of the back by the cross-bar b,and at the seat by the bands d and rail e. The cushion or supporting-webf is attached at the lower end to the rail e and passes over Ithe bandsd, vand thence is drawn over the cross-bar b and secured by buckles andstraps g that regulate the length of web hanging between b and e, andhence the manner in which the occupant of the chair will be sustained ina more or less reoumbent position. The arms k may be applied to the sideframes a. The

legs l Z are crossed so as to be braced and sur tain the chair in thedirection in which it oscilla-tes upon the rockers m. A cross-bar, n,unites the legs Z, and the ends of the legs L pass into the rockers m,such rockers being made of three thicknesses riveted together, themiddle thickness being omitted at the parts where the ends of the legs Zpass into the roclo ers so as to form mortises; this is also done wherethe cross-rail o is applied between the rockers. The back of the chairis supported by the cross-bars or legs 'r r, that are connected at theirupper ends to the frame a and at their lower ends to the rockers m orrail o. By making the legs or supports r to cross each other, as shown,the frame of the chair is reliably connected to the rockers, and bracedso as to prevent the parts bending, and at the same time the said legs rarenot in the Way of the Occupant of the chair while resting upon thecushion or webbing that is suspended or sustained at the ends somewhatsimilar to a hammock.

I claimas my invention- The wrought-iron rocking-chair frame, made ofthe metallic side and cross bars a el and legs l r, connected to thethree-part rockers m, as set forth.

Signed by me this 10th-day of July, A. D.

CARL EIBEE.

Witnesses:

GEO'. T. PINOKNEY, GHAs. H. SMITH.,

